Word: codman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following men have already commenced practice and more are expected. Fuller, Griffin, Scott, Holmes, F. Whittemore, Macurdy, Austin, Whiting, A. Codman, C. L. Bremer, Ames, Hoppin, Selfridge and Wrenn...
...Codman...
...PEABODY and W. L. VAN KLEECK.Best general references: D. A. Wells, Decay of our Merchant Marine; J. Codman, Free Ships; Report of Committee on Merchant Marine, House Report No. 966, 52nd Cong., 1st Session; Speech of Mr. Fithian, Cong. Record, 51st Cong., 2nd Session...
...Subsidizing schemes impracticable and inefficient.-(a) Subsidies large enough to be efficient would be too great tax on the people.-(1) Cost of building ships one-third greater than in England: Codman, as above.-(b) They must be permanent: House Report, as above.- (c) They have already been unsuccessfully tried in U. S.-(d) They have failed in France.-(1) Shipbuilding not built up in ten years' trial.-(e) England's supremacy not due to subsidizing: D. A. Wells, as above.-(1) No payments made to sailing vessels.-(2) Compensations only for carrying mails, and for building according to admiralty...
...CODMAN...